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Gallium: who produces it, who holds it

Primary production by country, 2025, and reserves, from USGS (Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 (February 2026)). Shares, ranks and concentration are computed from those rows.

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Concentration of primary production: How this is computedSum of the squares of each producer’s share of world output (0–1).Method →Code → on the Herfindahl index over the countries listed individually (a single supplier would score one).

CountryPrimary production, 2025 (kilograms)2024Share · rankExport restrictions
ChinaSourcedUSGS, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 (February 2026): Gallium (low-purity, primary) · 2025Open the source →839,000How this is computedA place's annual production ÷ the published world total, same unit and year.Method →Code → How this is computedPosition of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.Method →Code →3
RussiaSourcedUSGS, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 (February 2026): Gallium (low-purity, primary) · 2025Open the source →6,000How this is computedA place's annual production ÷ the published world total, same unit and year.Method →Code → How this is computedPosition of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.Method →Code →1
JapanSourcedUSGS, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 (February 2026): Gallium (low-purity, primary) · 2025Open the source →3,000How this is computedA place's annual production ÷ the published world total, same unit and year.Method →Code → How this is computedPosition of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.Method →Code →—
United Statesnonenone——

World total 2025: 900,000 kilograms. Countries USGS or EIA fold into “other countries” are not listed or ranked. USGS, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 (February 2026): Gallium (low-purity, primary), table “World Low-Purity Production and Production Capacity”, read 2026-09-25.

Export restrictions on gallium

OECD Inventory of Export Restrictions on Critical Raw Materials (2024 data). About 80 exporting countries. A country or resource with no row is not recorded in the inventory, which is not the same as unrestricted. OECD Data Explorer ↗